The organizers had to cancel the annual conference on livestock care in connection with COVID-19, but they decided to move the event to a virtual platform.

Events, conferences, and schools are closing all over Alberta, Canada to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. Alberta Farm Animal Care (AFAC) was one organization that decided to cancel its event, the annual pandemic cattle care conference.

The conference was originally supposed to be held on March 19, and for this, 250 people came to the province.

Priyamaya ryoch: “We worked with the hotel on increasing the level of cleaning, as well as on how we are going to regulate hand washing, buffets. And then, during the course of the day, we really did not feel that it was the right choice. So the event was canceled. And the conference will not be held this year because it is simply not included in the budget of a non-profit organization such as ours, ”said Annemarie Pedersen, AFAC Executive Director.

The organizers were disappointed that they could not personally hold the conference, but they wanted to try and implement the theme of the conference this year and “raise the bar” and think about another way that they could offer this event.

They decided to go digital with LCC 2.0 on March 16th and are encouraging people to register on the AFAC website.

“We do not want everyone to sit at their computer for 8 hours. So, we will have an hourly session, then an hourly break, then another hourly session, and so on throughout the day. Thus, people are not attached to their computers, phones or tablets all day, ”she said.

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